I likedResident Evil: The Umbrella Chroniclesa lot, but after finishing it, I had no desire to play a sequel. It worked for what it was, but there was nothing about the game that made me want to see more. you’re able to guess that when Capcom announcedResident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, I was pretty underwhelmed. My gut reaction was that it just wasn’t a game that needed to be made....
Hey, everyone! Chad Concelmo and Dale North to bring you the live blog of the E3 2009 Nintendo press conference. I don’t know about you, but we are super excited about what Nintendo has to announce this year. In fact, I would go so far as to say AMAZING things could happen! Hit the jump to follow along with our live blog. If you are like us, you have your fingers crossed in nervous anticipation for what’s about to happen....
WithResident Evil 4: Wii Edition, Capcom showed Wii gamers that their flagship zombie-slayin’ series certainly benefits from some innovative new hardware. But could that hardware carry the series through the transition to an on-rails shooter? Being the deathly curious little imp that I am, I hit up the Capcom booth for some hands-on time withResident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, complete with the new Zapper peripheral. After a fair sampling of gore, guts and mayhem, isUmbrella Chroniclesa marked improvement upon the RE lightgun games that preceeded it?...
Fans of the great music that often backs the Zelda franchise, you’ll probably be extremely happy to know that two new Zelda music CDs are coming this year! First up is theOcarina of Timesoundtrack, which will be made free to those who are among the first to registerOcarina of Time 3DSon Club Nintendo. Secondly, a new CD, featuring the recordings of the Zelda 25th Anniversary Orchestra, will be coming later this year around the launch window forThe Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword....
EA Sports has confirmed that its upcoming sports monster title,Madden NFL 11, will ship on a disc that features music. Some music you’ve heard before, some you haven’t, and some you wished you didn’t have to. But here they are, the 23 tracks you’ll be listening to as you sack, juke, and touchdown all over digital stadiums this August. The song listing will consist of original recordings, cover tracks, and a team fight songs....
1UP, the Interweb component ofElectronic Gaming Monthly, haswordfrom their forbidden ink-and-paper lover that next month’s issue will revealSoul Calibur 4, the latest title in Namco’s long-running phallocentric fighter series. Genre fans have long been waiting for this announcement as the recent titles in theTekken, andVirtua Fighterseries (thoseother3D fighters), have been mainly rehashes of previous ideas. One hopes Namco doesn’t fall into the same trap with the reincarnation ofSoul Calibur, but according to this guy I just asked on the subway, “Whassa Sour Cabaler?...
This is … amazing. Amazing beyond words. At theFinal Fantasy XIIIlaunch event in London, people who hate Ekans showed just how much of a raw nerve the game’s multiplatform status is. At the mere mention of the Xbox 360 version of the game, enemies of the Rattlesnake Pokemon flooded the event’s host with a torrent of boos, to the point where he threatened them with security. If you ever wanted further proof thatEkans haters are indeed the worst, then we now have documented evidence to support the claim....
I had a chance to spend some time at Epic Games’ Cary, North Carolina offices, mainly to spend some time with the multiplayer portions ofUnreal Tournament 3on the PC. Yes, the game was impressive, and I surely will be doing a more detailed write-up of the various modes I played. But more importantly — what does the dungeon look like thatGears of Warwas made in? Does Cliffy B use the bathrooms on the first or second floor?...
European Xbox VP Chris Lewishas revealedthat only a quarter of European gamers make up Xbox Live’s total membership, and has blamed the language barrier. He states, unsurprisingly, that most of Europe’s XBL users are in the UK, and that the US has the “lion’s share” of Xbox Live members. “We don’t normally break out the European element of our Live membership,” stated Lewis in an interview withEdgemagazine.“I mean, I know what it is, but I don’t want to get rapped on the knuckles by being too explicit with you....
At theWTIA TechNWforum in a discussion about the social media games industry, PopCap Games CEO Dave Roberts had a few choice words about Zynga, the makers of just about every popular time waster you’ve played on Facebook. It seems that he doesn’t feel that there’s any staying power behind what Zynga is doing. He lays it all out in this quote: “They are in some ways struggling to catch up because they are not (about) gaming in their heritage — they are a marketing company....
[As originally posted onTomopop] Normally I’m not much of a statuary fan, being of the opinion that you should actually be able toplaywith your toys after you buy them rather then look longingly at their stoic visages collecting dust on a high shelf. But in this case I think maybe I’ll make an exception. First 4 Figureshas unveiled the first in a series ofNinja Gaiden IIfigures which, of course, has been kicked off by none other than Ryu Hayabusa himself....
Opportunities to share news like this with you, my friends, does not come around often enough, so if you don’t mind I’m going to relish the moment here.Kotakurecently reported (viaGlobo) about a rather unusual hostage case: a sixty year old woman was held hostage at gun point for ten hours in Brazil. The hilarious part of all this is the gun used was a Sega Light Phaser that came packed with the Sega Master System....
Since the next couple of Fridays are occupied by holiday festivities, this will be our last Friday Night Fights for a little while. As such, you need to try and make tonight count! The short break will hopefully serve as a nice recovery period so we can come back stronger than ever in 2010. I wanted to use a picture from the “And All Through the House” episode ofTales from the Crypt, but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t a blurry mess....
